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Reputation: 995

How to Specify Font Units in WPF

I Want to set the font of my WPF dialog to similar of an existing Winforms dialog i.e. Microsoft Sans Serif, 8.25pt. How can we specify the Font unit in WPF?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 6010

Answers (3)

BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft

Reputation: 85957

Just include the text pt or px in the font-size. For example,

<TextBlock Width="400" Text="">
   <Run FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif"
        FontSize="8.25 pt">Hello world!</Run>
</TextBlock>

1 pt is defined as 1/72nd of an inch; 1 px is 1/96th of an inch.

Note that unit qualifiers are only supported in WPF, not in Silverlight.

There is no equivalent to the CSS unit em, but there is a workaround.

Upvotes: 8

Jean-Louis Mbaka
Jean-Louis Mbaka

Reputation: 1612

You can acheive that by setting the FontFamily and the FontSize properties of the control.

eg.

<UserControl x:Class="FitPredictionModule.Views.BondTestView"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

             FontFamily="Microsoft Sans Serif"
             FontSize="8.25 pt">
             <!-- Content here -->
</UserControl>

You can see that I have set the FontFamily to Microsoft Sans Serif and the FontSize to 8.25 pt. Know that Windows Forms font size = WPF font size * 72.0 / 96.0.

Upvotes: 0

Craig White
Craig White

Reputation: 13992

Here is a MSDN article on WPF font sizes;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.textblock.fontsize(v=vs.95).aspx

Upvotes: 2

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